Dang, I bet he’s glad he didn’t actually kill them those other dozen times he tried to kill them.

Oh, hey, and it’s the first real in-canon explanation (sort of) for how Joyce’s jetpack works. Alan’s definitely squeezing this out for me in that third panel, just to get that out there for the audience finally.

My thinking? The thrusters are pointed away from her feet so she can fly but not burn her heels thanks the above mentioned ability to control the jetpack. And maybe her feet have a role in how the thrusters point, like some sort of rudder on a jetboat or plane.

It used to be that it did (this was a plot point back in Year Zero), but it switched from Rocket propulsion (i.e., burning fuel) to Jet propulsion (i.e., blowing air) later so that wouldn’t happen again.